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by orev 4y ago
> maybe continuously pushing your finger against the screen would make the person seated in front angry after some time The tech crowd here is stuck on the technology limits, but this right here is main reason. It would drive me nuts if
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by orev 4y ago
If people are willing to pay for something, it’s by definition not overpriced. The price of something is defined ONLY by how much people are willing to pay for it.
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by orev 4y ago
It was highly dependent on when you were doing this. There was a time very early on where even moving the mouse would cause it to skip. (also had the same issue playing MP2 (yes, 2) audio files). That was when we were really pushing the lim
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by orev 4y ago
5) Many owners replace the mufflers with “mufflers”, dramatically increasing the noise. Many of them sound like the engine is venting straight into the air with no sound dampening at all. You can hear these things at night easily a mile awa
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by orev 4y ago
They clearly state the reason in the last sentence: > The amount of RAM you were allowed to plug into a PC motherboard always felt like the most annoying limitation.
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by orev 4y ago
There’s a big misconception that wraps are somehow more healthy than bread. They’re more processed and have at least as many calories as bread does, despite often being presented as the healthier option.
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by orev 4y ago
If depositors split $1 million across multiple accounts, then they would be made whole with FDIC insurance for each account. If they have the same $1 million in one account, they’re still being made whole for the same amount. There’s litera
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by orev 4y ago
When you’re the most valuable company in the world, is it? Wouldn’t you want to just keep doing what you’re doing?
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by orev 4y ago
> The idea copyright is to protect the author’s specific personality in the expression of an idea while, at the same time, allowing for the free circulation of the idea itself. Is that really the idea of copyright? I’m not sure it is. Th
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by orev 4y ago
Surprised that there’s no mention of Home Assistant. It’s great for even lightweight home automation. But based on the title I was expecting something less intelligent, like simple lamp timers. You can get surprisingly far with those and so
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by orev 4y ago
You seem to be focusing on mental stress with mental remedies, however the best remedy for mental stress is physical remedies. The mind reacts to stress as if you’re being attacked, and the historical remedy to being attacked is to fight (f
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by orev 4y ago
Many home appliances have hidden codes you can use to adjust settings like this, including making them silent. They usually come up if you search for “Sabbath Mode”.
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by orev 4y ago
I think this is very dependent on what you do during the hours you’re not working. If you’re just scrolling your phone or playing video games, that’s probably not very restorative. A key thing would be to do other things, like exercise, tak
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by orev 4y ago
The point of that comment is that millions of people actively choose to ignore the entire concept of a health care system and the science underlying disease. Those people simply wouldn’t care about the differences between Covid and other di
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by orev 4y ago
An object in a room at ambient temperature would slowly warm up to equal the same temperature from the conduction of the warmer air around it. If the temperature of an object can “hold below ambient”, it means it must be able to allow the o
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by orev 4y ago
It sounds like those executives had exceptional communication skills—they know who to spend their time on that will help them get the next promotion, and as an underling/individual contributor, you’re not it. And yet they’re executives
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by orev 4y ago
The point is that users should not be allowed to install apps that are not allowed by IT/security. So many “legit” apps these days are essentially spyware on their own. We’re not even talking about things that have malicious motives.
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by orev 4y ago
You have completely misunderstood the purpose of distributions. The packaging of software for easy installation is certainly a benefit, but by FAR the primary purpose of (enterprise) distributions is to ensure all those packages are tested
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by orev 4y ago
Growing seaweed is significantly more expensive than growing cattle feed (i.e. corn), and corn farming is heavily subsidized by the US taxpayers. Corn fields also have the advantage that they can be very close to the fields where cattle are
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by orev 4y ago
In the US, we have the unemployment insurance system that’s run by the government already. Isn’t this a government intervention that’s already there? What else should they be doing?
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by orev 4y ago
That’s quite a huge leap from “here’s a bunch of facts the seem to point to a specific conclusion” to “it’s all shoddy journalism and nothing but opinions”. This article lays out a number of facts, which quite clearly connects the dots to a
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by orev 4y ago
It’s more likely that many people don’t know what’s going on, or if they do at a surface level they don’t fully understand all the implications. So much stuff is buried in usage agreement legalese that nobody reads, which companies use most
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by orev 4y ago
I agree. I don’t believe for a second that Google hasn’t had a secret build of Chrome for iOS going since the iPhone came out. Firefox, I can see them having one in a somewhat working state but probably not completely ready without needing
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by orev 4y ago
Would you be willing to share those rules?
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by orev 4y ago
Not only would they be forgotten about, but without forced downtime/reset, they start slipping into production use. The dev asks someone to “try it on my server”, then the word gets out about this other server that works better and has
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by orev 4y ago
Public access by default was a boneheaded decision from the very beginning. Even in 2006 it was already well-known for decades how public anonymous access to things could lead to problems. All they needed to do was provide a checkbox to ena
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by orev 4y ago
Enumeration doesn’t have to mean using a brute force search. One could simply make the api call and then update a local database with the result. That local database would then become the potentially exposed data.
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by orev 4y ago
I know many people have strong feelings about GIMP, and I just have to say that I love it. I use it for basic photo editing stuff—I’m not an artist—and it has always done what I needed it to do. I gave up on comparing it to Photoshop over a
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by orev 4y ago
Using your own devices is called “BYOD”. There’s a joke in IT operations/security that the “D” stands for “Disaster”. It’s completely impossible to run a secure operation if people are allowed to use their own devices. If you cannot en
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by orev 4y ago
Airlines don’t want you checking bags for at least two reasons: 1) For every bag that’s carry-on is one that a baggage handler doesn’t have to deal with (as well as reducing risks of losing it and all those logistics), so they can reduce th

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